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  • From: "Bridget Gilfillan Upton" <b.gilfillan-upton AT heythrop.ac.uk>
  • To: "Kata Markon" <gmark AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [GMark] Language and Style of Mark
  • Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 12:52:10 +0100

I think I should be tempted to put in something on Mark's narrative strategies in order to make the stylistic unit as large as possible. Almost anything of Elizabeth Struthers Malbon (perhaps her essay in Capel Anderson and Moore (eds) Mark and Method), and something from Joanna Dewey on orality --  ‘The Gospel of Mark as an Oral-Aural Event: Implications for Interpretation’ in McKnight and Struthers Malbon (eds.) (145-63)  The New Literary Criticism and the New Testament (Pennsylvania: Trinity Press) 1994 and perhaps Tannehill 1979 ‘The Gospel of Mark as Narrative Christology’ Semeia 16 (57-94).
 
This may not be at all what you want, so please ignore if not....
 
Sounds a lovely course to me.
 
All the best,
 
Bridget
 
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Head" <pmh15 AT cam.ac.uk>
To: "Kata Markon" <gmark AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: [GMark] Language and Style of Mark

> Thanks for the responses on this question. They were all helpful (although
> I'm holding back on Danove and Reiser - it is for a second year Greek class!)
>
> The outline of my lecture is as follows. Any major omissions?
>
>
> The Language and Style of the Greek of Mark's Gospel
>
> 1. Introduction
>
> 2. Vocabulary
> a) Total vocabulary of 1,345 different words (1,270 + 75 proper names)
>
> b) Common vocabulary:
> a) Mark uses 31 words more than fifty times (Morgenthaler, 167)
>
>
> c) Characteristic vocabulary (selected from Hawkins, Horae Synopticae, 12-13)
>
>
>             d) Absent vocabulary
> Some terms are relatively absent from Mark:
>
>
>
>
> 3. Grammar
> a)      Verbal Forms in Mark: (from Decker, Temporal Deixis, 92)
>
> b)      Historic Present: 151 occurences (Hawkins, Horae Synopticae,
> 144-148: list with synoptic parallels): 71 are forms of le/gw.
>
> c)      Impersonal Plural (Turner/Elliott, Language, 4-12; cf. Pryke,
> Style, 107-115)
>             plural verb with no expressed subject:
> d)      Genitive absolute: 29 occurences (Pryke: 24/29 are redactional):
> open pericope with linking phrase.
> e)      a1rxomai as auxiliary verb (generally with infinitive): 33 times
> [Turner-Elliott, Language, 93-97; Pryke, Style, 79-87]: often simplified in
> Matthew (Head, Christology, 72).
>
>
> 4. Loan-words
> a)       Latin:
> b)       Aramaic words/phrases:
> c)       Aramaic names:
>
> 5. Other Features
> i)                    Parenthetical Comments:
>
>
> ii)                  Diminutives:
>
>
> iii)                 Duality (Neirynck)
>
> iv)                Semitic Interference in Marcan Syntax (Maloney)
>
>
>
> 6. Concluding Reflections
>
> i)                    Markan Style and redaction of pre-Markan sources
>
> ii)                  Markan Style and the Synoptic Problem
>
> iii)                 Markan Style and the Textual Criticism of Mark
>
> iv)                Markan Style and Markan communication strategy
>
> v)                  Markan Style and the Markan Setting
>
>
>
> 7. Recent Research
>
> a)      R.J. Decker, Temporal Deixis of the Greek Verb in the Gospel of
> Mark in Light of Verbal Aspect (2001)
>
> b)      P. Danove, Linguistics and Exegesis in the Gospel of Mark:
> Applications of a Case Frame Analysis and Lexicon (2002)
>
>
> Pete
>
>
>
> At 03:37 PM 9/5/05, you wrote:
>>What would people recommend on the subject of the language and style of
>>Mark's Greek?
>>I'm looking at Hawkins, Horae Synopticae; N. Turner, Style (Moulton's
>>Grammar); C.H. Turner's 'Notes on Marcan Usage' and the standard
>>commentaries. But there must be some more recent monographs out there.
>>
>>Cheers
>>
>>Peter
>>
>>
>>
>>Peter M. Head, PhD
>>Sir Kirby Laing Senior Lecturer in New Testament
>>Tyndale House
>>36 Selwyn Gardens                                       Phone: (UK) 01223
>>566607
>>Cambridge, CB3 9BA                                      Fax: (UK) 01223 566608
>>http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Tyndale/staff/Head/Staff.htm
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> Peter M. Head, PhD
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> Tyndale House
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> 566607
> Cambridge, CB3 9BA                                      Fax: (UK) 01223 566608
>
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